Seek My Face

from bell7

Now in her seventies, artist Hope Chafetz reflects back on her life and her husbands in an interview with a journalist, Kathryn. The overall timeframe is just one day of an interview, but both their recorded interview and Hope's thoughts range all over the place, through the second World War, art...

from AshRyan

The blurb on the back of this edition describes the book as "the triumphant story of postwar American art." I don't know if that's how Updike intended it, but as he presents it, there was nothing triumphant about it...just a boys' club of self-important, pretentious freaks, many of whom had littl...

from charlie68

Good writing but I found the plot tiring. No real resolution at the end. Lots of stuff about modern art in America, stuff I'm not really familiar with.

from ValerieAndBooks

I took Seek My Face (2002) with me on our spring break a couple months ago, and that was a tough book to read during a vacation. Why? Because this novel had no chapter breaks at all. At 276 pages, it was one long story about a female artist/painter who was a major figure in the art world of the 1...

from whitewavedarling

Even though the novel takes place over the course of just a single day, it ranges from the 1930s on through the end of the twentieth century in scope. As an artist is interviewed about her life--her work, her marriages, her children, her artistic husbands, and her thoughts on gender, art, and lif...